ES2 has really cool feature that you can join ongoing games. Just enter the lobby, choose a faction, wait until people finish their turn and then you are there, in the middle of the action.


The problem is, after you join a game, it is very disorientating. You have have to quickly get a grip, fast, on what is happening on you empire. Which techs did were researched? Where/what are my ships? Am I at war?


To ease this process, I suggest a Status Report screen after you joined a game. That screen would show info such as:


- Any major faction you are in war with

- How many planets do you have

- The last 4 researched techs

- Unassigned heroes

- Idle planets

- How many military ships do you have

- You relative position in FIDSI ("You are third in military, second in influence, last in science")

- More info that might be relevant


Maybe this screen could be actionable - you could go straight to assigning your heroes, to the tech screen, maybe even set up an empire wide automation policy.


Additionaly, I would like to see a 3-5 turn forced truce with every other faction if you you are not already at war with them. That way, you do have some time so to fully know what is going on and what do you want to do about it.